The Emperors Babe by Bernardine Evaristo

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL WOMAN OTHER Wildly entertaining deeply affecting Ali Smith Londinium AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. Shes a backalley firecracker a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet and shes just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand its slave girls and drag queens its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows Paperback softback